Sunday, 27 April 2014

Life is too short to wake up in
the morning with regrets. So love the people who treat you right, forget about
the ones who don’t and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get
a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said that it’d be
easy, they just promised it would be worth it. - Unknown

Some days life is all about your
dreams, hopes and visions for the future. But there are some days where life is
just about putting one foot in front of the other. And that’s okay. - Unknown

At times when it seems like your
life is not going the way you anticipated, it may just be that things are
actually falling into place and you can’t quite see the big picture yet. - Unknown

Laugh your heart out. Dance in the
rain. Cherish the moment. Live, laugh, love, forgive and forget. Life is too
short to be living with regrets. - Unknown

Even when you think you have your
life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might
never have imagined. - Deepak Chopra

Life is too ironic. It takes
sadness to know what happiness is, noise to appreciate silence, and absence to
value presence. - Unknown

The measure of your life will not
be in what you accumulate, but in what you give away. - Dr. Wayne Dyer

If you are still looking for that
one person who can change your life, take a look in the mirror. - Unknown

To succeed in life, you need three
things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone. - Reba McEntire

It’s much more interesting to live
not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. - Richard Feynman

Enjoy life. Live your
life to the fullest. This is not a rehearsal! - Unknown

Saturday, 26 April 2014

Frustrations are as much a part of life as death and taxes. It does
us good to recognize them for what they are, have a good laugh and let them go.
When we do, they seem to fall into perspective. -Leo Buscaglia

You only have power over people so
long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man
of everything he’s no longer in your power – he’s free again. -Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of
getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming task into small
manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. -Mark Twain

There are some people who could
hear you speak a thousand words and still not understand you. And there are others
who will understand without you even speaking a word. -
Unknown

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless
you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgments about what is going
on. -Harry S. Truman

Ordinary people often ruminate
that they have no control of events that unfold in their lives – and that is
why they remained ordinary throughout their lives. - Unknown

Friday, 25 April 2014

Online personality Ze Frank uses
jelly beans to paint a picture of the average American life span taking into
account factors such as sleep and travel. Frank is considered to be a pioneer
in the video blogging field that gained popularity with YouTube.

Wednesday, 23 April 2014

Sometimes being understanding is
more important than being right. Sometimes we need not a brilliant mind that
speaks but a patient heart that listens. Not keen eyes that always see faults
but open arms that accept. Not a finger that points out mistakes but gentle
hands that lead. - Unknown

You fall, you rise, you make
mistakes, you live, you learn. You’re human, not perfect. You’ve been hurt, but
you’re alive. Think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe,
to think, to enjoy, and to chase the things you love. Sometimes there is
sadness in our journey, but there is also lots of beauty. We must keep putting
one foot in front of the other even when we hurt, for we will never know what
is waiting for us just around the bend. - Unknown

Science is not only compatible
with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize
our place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages, when we
grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling,
that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual. The notion
that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice
to both. - Carl Sagan

Saturday, 19 April 2014

Sometimes it is better to keep
silent than tell others around you just how you feel. Because it hurts badly
when you know in your heart that they can hear
your words but they cannot understand. - Unknown

A city is the pulsating product of
the human hand and mind, reflecting man’s history, his struggle for
freedom, creativity, genius – and his selfishness and errors. - Charles Abrams

The evil that is in the world
almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as
malevolence if they lack understanding. - Albert Camus

Begin to free
yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as
you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more. -Robert Collier

If you write a page a day, you
will be an author of a thick book in a year. Great results will take shape when
small efforts are continually put in over time. - Unknown

Just as there is
no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its
effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt. -Norman
Cousins

Friday, 18 April 2014

Mark Miodownik, a British
materials scientist at University College London, explains why glass is solid
and transparent at the same time. In this lesson, discover where glass comes
from and how it gets treated to become an ‘amorphous solid’.

Sunday, 13 April 2014

Educator Yannay Khaikin explains
why every time you shuffle a deck of cards, you could potentially be holding a
combination that has never existed before. There are over 100,000,000 decks
produced annually with casinos using hundreds of new decks a night.

Saturday, 12 April 2014

Put it before them briefly so they
will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will
remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light. -Joseph Pulitzer

Anything that is out of control
can become dangerous. Think of a runaway lorry with a faulty brake or a plane
flying with a faulty engine. Think of an uncontrolled mind of a person driving his
life. - Unknown

The serene philosophy of the pink
rose is steadying. Its fragrant, delicate petals open fully and are ready to
fall, without regret or disillusion, after only a day in the sun. -Rachel Peden

To master a game or a skill, you
must be taught through description and demonstration; but most importantly, you
must be given a chance to practise it constantly. - Unknown

Not to be cheered by praise, not
to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are
the characteristics of an excellent man. -Saskya Pandita

Wherever there is danger, there
lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two
are inseparable. They go together. - Earl Nightingale

Friday, 11 April 2014

AsapScience explains the leading
theories as to why humans yawn and why it’s so contagious when someone sees it.
Ranging from biological to psychological answers, the popular science channel
even adds a few notes on yawning when it comes to our pets.

Monday, 7 April 2014

A paraprosdokian (from Greek,
meaning "beyond" and "expectation") is a figure of speech
in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in
a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first
part. It is frequently used for humorous or dramatic effect, sometimes
producing an anticlimax. For this reason, it is extremely popular among
comedians and satirists.

Some
paraprosdokians not only change the meaning of an early phrase, but also play
on the double meaning of a particular word, creating a syllepsis.

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Why make the
same mistake twice when there are so many new ones? - Unknown

Without
education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people
seriously. - Gilbert Chesterton

Women must come off
the pedestal. Men put us up there to get us out of the way. - Viscountess
Rhondda

Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street
with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are sexy. - Unknown

Won't you come
into the garden? I would like my roses to see you. - Richard B. Sheridan

Work is the greatest thing in the
world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow. - Don Herold

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for
instance. - Franklin P. Jones

You can tell
some fellows aren't afraid of work by the way they fight it. - Unknown

You can’t always control who walks
into your life … but you can control which window you throw them out of. - Unknown

You can’t have everything. Where would you put it? - Steven Wright

You can’t say
civilizations don’t advance... in every war they kill you in a new way. - Will Rogers

You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive
twice. - Unknown

You're never too old to learn something stupid. - Unknown

Your future depends on your dreams. So go to sleep.- Unknown

Your first job
is to prepare the soil. The best tool for this is your neighbor's motorized
garden tiller. If your neighbor does not own a garden tiller, suggest that he
buy one. - Dave Barry

Sunday, 6 April 2014

Based on the book ‘The Fabric of
the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality’ by renowned physicist
Brian Greene, this PBS documentary explores the concept of space-time as it
relates to our common understanding of the past, present, and future.

Saturday, 5 April 2014

When, against one’s will, one is high pressured into
making a hurried decision, the best answer is always “No,” because “No” is more
easily changed to “Yes,” than “Yes” is changed to “No.” - Charles E. Nielson

Formulate and stamp indelibly on
your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture
tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the
picture. - Norman
Vincent Peale

Understanding is deeper than
knowledge. There are many people who know us but very few who understand us.
Understanding is more of the heart than of the mind. - Unknown

The forces that affect our lives,
the influences that mould and shape us, are often like whispers in a distant
room, teasingly indistinct, apprehended only with difficulty. - Unknown

Each of us, face to face with
other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all
the unspeakable things that go on in the heart. -Luigi Pirandello

I don’t like these cold, precise,
perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in
order not to do wrong, never do anything. -Henry Ward Peecher

Friday, 4 April 2014

Blogger and science education
writer Rose Eveleth explains the difference between poisons and venoms. While
they’re sometimes used interchangeably because they’re similar, there is a
technical difference that places them in two separate categories.

Wednesday, 2 April 2014

Note: I
haven’t tested these, so comment if any of these are bogus or not.

1. Get
rid of unwanted hair anywhere! For I week, rub 2 teaspoon coffee grounds mixed
with 1 teaspoon baking soda. The baking soda intensifies the compounds of the
coffee breaking down the hair follicles at the root.

2. If
your throat itches, scratch your ear. Doing so stimulates the nerves in your
ear and create a reflex in the throat which causes a muscle spasm that kills
the itchy feeling.

3. Homemade
Face Mask: Bananas are great for oily skin. Mash up a banana with a teaspoon of
honey and a couple of drops of lemon juice. Apply to your face and let it sit
for 15 minutes before washing with a cool washcloth.